RIP Adam Yauch/MCA of the Beastie Boys

they gave him a park in Canada?

no Canada has been renamed Adam Yauch Park

Got more hits than Stompin' Tom Connors

I dropped my draws she said welcome back bacon

*drawers

Logo of NYC Parks. Did you know that NYC park employees all have "Park Names," Shakey?

I guess they probably do on that TV show as well.

i thought park names were just a thing under commissioner Stern

Probably right

Peace, Yauch.

Hello from Russia! R.I.P. MCA
It was a huge loss for the whole history of hip-hop music, fans, friends and family ...
5 years have passed, but we will remember you forever!

revive of the year

five years!

this still bums me out.

yeah, same :(

yeah

i remember the day and heard so many people blasting beastie boys out of their cars/houses throughout

;_;

Yup

7 years.

fuck

Today we remember Adam Yauch of the legendary Beastie Boys who passed away 10 years ago today. His childhood park in Brooklyn Heights is named in his honor. Visit it at State Street and Columbia Place. pic.twitter.com/yiHrn3zQNR

— NYC Parks (@NYCParks) May 4, 2022

The No Dogs in Space podcast deep dive into the Beasties is very good, particularly good at illustrating how they happened to be in just the right spot to leverage the tenuous connections between the 80s punk and hiphop scenes. They don't emphasize it, but it really struck me as ironic that their dj gear was funded by a settlement with British Airways after a advert used a Yauch bassline without authorization, then six years later, Paul's Boutique.

Yeah, it's pretty bonkers that they happened to see that ad and were able to get some money out of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R374eE_b2NY

Wow, that's pretty insane and incredibly fortuitous.

also kind of bonkers that British Airlines had a copy of a Beastie Boys demo track

IIRC they had released it on a 12-inch at that point. Going from memory, I think "Beastie Revolution" was the B-side of "Cookie Puss".

still pretty obscure!

Yes, totally! That story blew my mind when I read it in the Beastie Boys' book

Here's the guy who did it, telling his side of the story (Beastie Boys talk starts at 1:07)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucrj3BP6vfY

^great find!

I might be conflating this with another story from the book, but I believe Adrock says that he took some of that money to a shop intending to buy a guitar, changed his mind on the spot, and walked out with a Roland TR-808 drum machine instead. And that ended up being the drum machine he used to program the beat for "I Need a Beat" by LL Cool J, the first release on Def Jam.

Nice! Thanks peace, man, that was an amazing find. I don't want to bestow too much credit, but given the chain of events that was set off by that settlement money, that ad man really did the world a solid.

“that ad man”!

Agh, I just saw the 1:07 part and assumed he was an ad guy based on him talking about creating a commercial.

not too hard to believe that Beastie Revolution was this guy’s favourite record for a couple of months tbh

That's the Haysi Fantayzee guy? I'm shattered to see that he didn't wear that hat-thing for the rest of his life.

xp: ok, I had read the words Haysi Fantayzee before but never looked them up. I don't know what to think after watching that. I think I might have a fever.

I ended up listening to a bunch of other clips from that interview. I had never heard of Haysi Fantayzee before. He tells some good stories. Super likable guy.